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Chapter 17 - SINBOUND: Black Glyph Atlas (World Map... so Far)

>[SYSTEM FILE: BLACK GLYPH ATLAS]

CLASSIFICATION: UNSTABLE KNOWLEDGE

ACCESS LEVEL: SINFORGED – Tier III Required

NOTE: Some entries remain redacted by Divine Protocol. Proceed at risk.

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🔥 MAIN CHARACTERS TO LOG (CURRENT ALIGNMENTS)

LucanMalryk

Alias: Ritebreaker | Ghost of the Creed

Affiliation: Hollow Creed (formerly Divine Order)

SystemTier: III – Sinforged Ascendant

Summary:

Once betrayed and sacrificed, Lucan rose with a glitched system and a wrath no Rite could cleanse. Now a growing legend feared by gods and factions alike. Hunted and Watched.

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RivennaDrae

Alias: Veiled Flame

Affiliation: Hollow Creed

Summary:

Silent, sharp, and deadly loyal to the Creed—though whether that includes Lucan is unclear. Watches everything. Says little. Conflicted feelings for Lucan.

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AeliraVarn

Alias: The Fallen Saint

Affiliation: Ashvale (Divine Order)

Summary:

Lucan's former lover turned unwilling betrayer. Marked him with a death glyph under Halix's orders, now torn between guilt, love, and her mission. Under divine leash, emotionally torn.

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VerrickThorne

Alias: Hollow Fang

Affiliation: Hollow Creed

Summary:

Cunning council leader who views Lucan as an unstable threat. Sent Jareth to kill him. Failed. Now scrambling to regain control of the chaos he unleashed.

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JarethSolen

Alias: The Knife That Chose

Affiliation: Hollow Creed

Summary:

Lucan's first true friend in the Creed. Sent to kill him… but chose to fight beside him instead. Now branded a traitor to Verrick—and a brother by blood.

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EzekarNythe

Alias: Warden of Shadereach

Affiliation: Umbra Seat — 3rd Throne

Summary:

Dark, commanding, and unnervingly calm. Fought beside Lucan and now watches his growth like a storm. Speaks in veiled truths and threatens in poetry.

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Halix Varn, Mother of Faith

Alias: High Flame of Ashvale

Affiliation: Ashvale — 4th Throne

Summary:

Cold zealot wrapped in divine silk. Once ruled Lucan's fate. Now hunts him. Believes he's unraveling the divine glyphs—and everything else sacred. Hides a deeper secret about the Rite

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👑 THE SEVEN THRONES OF THE DIVINE ORDER

1. The First Throne

Ruler: Cardinal, Vaelion Thorne

Domain: Sanctum of the One Light (also known as the First Cathedral)

Military: The Ashborne Choir

Ranked Officers: Voicebearers, Censer-Knights, Lightbound

Style: Ritualistic, ash-wreathed divine enforcers; rarely deployed, but feared.

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2. The Second Throne

Ruler: High Seer, Elvar Maernyx

Domain: Oracle's Reach (mountains of carved prophecy)

Military: The Sighted Host

Ranked Officers: Glimmers, Hallowed Arbiters, Mindshapers

Style: Foresight-driven assassins and mind-benders; strike before you sin.

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3. The Third Throne

Ruler: Warden, Ezekar Nythe

Domain: Shadereach (fortress-city carved into cliffs; home of the Umbra Seat)

Military: The Umbra Seat

Ranked Officers: Nightbound, Nullbrands, Whisper Captains

Style: Shadow warfare, sinforged loyalty, brutal honor.

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4. The Fourth Throne

Ruler: Halix Varn, the Mother of Faith

Domain: Ashvale (city of divine law, white stone, and blood)

Military: The Creed of Chains

Ranked Officers: Thorn-Priests, Silencers, Virtuebreakers

Style: Indoctrinated zealots wielding divine glyphs and pain.

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5. The Fifth Throne

Ruler: Warlord, Dren Voskar

Domain: Flame Vale (volcanic territory ruled by conquest)

Military: The Ember Host

Ranked Officers: Flamecallers, Ashmarked, Burnwrights

Style: Chaos-forged warriors; might before doctrine.

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6. The Sixth Throne

Ruler: Seraphine Velloren of Hollowglass, the Glass Saint

Domain: Mirrorhold (ice fortress hidden behind illusions and fractured light)

Military: The Hollowguard

Ranked Officers: Glassbound, Echo Veil, Cryshards

Style: Illusion magic, reflection combat, glass blade assassins.

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7. The Seventh Throne

Ruler: Lady Nyssra Vel'Kirel, Warden of the Veil

Domain: Dunes of the Veiled Reach (endless desert of shifting shrines)

Military: The Dune Choir

Ranked Officers: Whispersands, Scorchbinders, Mirageborn

Style: Sand wraiths, mirage spells, poison-tongued prophets.

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THRONES — ALLIES — ENEMIES

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⚖️ 1st Throne – Cardinal Vael of the Sanctum

· Allies: None openly. Whispers say he favors balance, not bonds.

· Enemies: None declared. But make no mistake—he watches them all.

The silent judge. Will act only when the scales tip beyond recovery.

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🔮 2nd Throne – High Seer Elvar of Oracle's Reach

· Allies: Halix (formerly), now leaning toward Ezekar for prophetic value.

· Enemies: None openly. Will switch sides the moment fate smiles elsewhere.

Obsessed with signs and omens. Sees Lucan as either messiah… or mistake.

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🕯 3rd Throne – Ezekar Nythe of Shadereach (Umbra Seat)

· Allies: Seraphine, Warlord Dren, possibly Nyssra (tentative).

· Enemies: Halix (openly), distrusted by Elvar.

Watches storms, doesn't leash them. Treats Lucan as evolution, not error.

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🕊 4th Throne – Halix of Ashvale (Mother of Faith)

· Allies: High Seer Elvar (distant), Nyssra (faux cordiality).

· Enemies: Ezekar (open war of ideology), Dren, Seraphine (quiet dissent).

Wants Lucan erased. Sees him as a crack in divine perfection. Clinging to purity, losing influence.

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🔥 5th Throne – Warlord Dren of the Flame Vale

· Allies: Ezekar (for now), Seraphine (mutual chaos).

· Enemies: Halix, barely hides it.

Favors fire over faith. Supports Lucan if it means shaking the Order's bones.

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🩸 6th Throne – Seraphine of Hollowglass

· Allies: Ezekar, Dren, potentially Vael (in philosophy).

· Enemies: Halix (philosophical opposites).

Silent blade in the council. Supports Lucan's rise from the shadows.

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🦂 7th Throne – Lady Nyssra of the Veiled Reach

· Allies: Pretends loyalty to Halix, trades secrets with Ezekar and Dren.

· Enemies: None directly, but will betray everyone if it serves her ends.

Smiles in diplomacy. Sharpens daggers in private. Lucan is a tool or a trap—she hasn't decided.

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WORLD MAP - SO FAR

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🔲 AETHERION – The Divine Core

The subterranean holy capital where the Seven Thrones hold court.

Built from god-bone and oathstone, it is a city beneath a city—divine, damned, and secret.

Only the rulers of each faction and their closest guards may walk the Sanctum of the Seven, where war is whispered and fate is forged.

Neutral zone, but it breathes the politics of every throne.

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🕊️ ASHVALE – Domain of the 4th Throne, Halix (Mother of Faith)

A land of pale fields, spired temples, and burning altars.

Holds the largest concentration of Divine Order loyalists.

The city of Cindervow lies at its heart—gleaming with guilt, ruled by gospel.

Militant theocracy; the people obey because they must, or because they burn.

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🕯️ SHADEREACH – Domain of the 3rd Throne, Ezekar Nythe (Umbra Seat)

A fortress-city carved into obsidian cliffs, where light ends and whispers begin.

Home of the Umbra Seat, whose creed values power earned in silence.

Shadows are alive here, and so are secrets.

Most feared assassins and operatives are trained here under the Umbra Creed.

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🔥 FLAME VALE – Domain of the 5th Throne, Warlord Dren

Volcanic badlands, scorched mountains, fire-split canyons.

Its capital, Brimhold, sits atop a lava fissure and burns eternal.

The Pyrestalkers, their elite military force, ride flame-bred beasts and wield emberforged weapons.

Known for gladiator trials, brutal customs, and blood rites.

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🩸 HOLLOWGLASS – Domain of the 6th Throne, Seraphine

A shattered city of mirrors and silence, built in a crater of arcane fallout.

Fog never lifts. Glass towers echo the sins of those who enter.

Rumored to house forbidden tomes and failed gods.

Seraphine's elite? The Shardsworn—voiceless assassins with fractal eyes.

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🦂 VEILED REACH – Domain of the 7th Throne, Lady Nyssra

A sprawl of nomadic cities moving across an endless desert.

Known for illusion magic, trade in lies, and spy networks older than the Order itself.

The capital changes monthly—built on the back of a roaming beast said to be a dead god.

Her Veilborn agents are both diplomats and executioners, wearing smiles and daggers alike.

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🔮 ORACLE'S REACH – Domain of the 2nd Throne, High Seer Elvar

Cliffs ringed in thunderclouds and crystalline ruins. Where lightning births prophecy.

Time flows strangely here; some visitors swear they meet versions of themselves.

The Oathwatch, Elvar's loyal warriors, wield memory-etched blades said to fracture reality.

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⚖️ THE SANCTUM – Domain of the 1st Throne, Cardinal Vael

More myth than nation. A floating monastic vault hidden in the mist between realms.

No one finds the Sanctum. It finds you—when the balance must be corrected.

His Ashguard act in absolutes—purge squads who remove what disrupts "order."

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❗Known Fringe Territories

Black Ridge Ruins: Where Lucan and Jareth fought Verrick's shadows. Abandoned Rite stronghold.

Gravepath Hollow: A cursed valley with echoes of failed divine rites.

The Hollow Creed Base: Located somewhere in the northern reach—hidden, nomadic, secretive.

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BEASTIARY OF THE SEVEN THRONES

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⚖️ 1st Throne – The Sanctum | Cardinal Vael

Beast: Ash Seraph

A skeletal winged serpent wreathed in ghost-flame.

Said to descend only when judgment is absolute.

Its screech turns guilty blood to ash.

Belief: "When it flies, absolution dies."

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🔮 2nd Throne – Oracle's Reach | High Seer Elvar

Beast: Chronowl

A massive, blind owl with silver feathers and multiple faces—each staring into a different time.

Known to hoot moments before someone dies or remembers a repressed memory.

Seers believe it chooses its perch based on fate's fracture point.

Belief: "The Chronowl sees your end before you begin."

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🕊️ 4th Throne – Ashvale | Halix, Mother of Faith

Beast: White Vultarch

Pale carrion birds, twice the size of men, sacred to Halix's rites.

They feed only on the bodies of those judged unworthy.

Believed to carry the condemned soul up… or tear it down.

Belief: "Where the wings blot light, the soul finds none."

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🕯️ 3rd Throne – Shadereach | Ezekar Nythe

Beast: Noctheron

A shadow-born feline with smoke for fur and ember-eyes. Moves like silence walking backward.

Hunts without leaving footprints. Kills without making sound.

Umbra assassins train beside them—or die trying.

Belief: "You don't see a Noctheron. You die knowing it saw you."

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🔥 5th Throne – Flame Vale | Warlord Dren

Beast: Hellmane Basilark

A fire-lizard crossed with a war lion, scales molten and eyes like twin coals.

Bred for siege, ridden by Flamebound generals.

Their roar shatters sanity; their bite burns through metal.

Belief: "Only fire breeds loyalty."

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🩸 6th Throne – Hollowglass | Seraphine

Beast: Mirrowight

A warped deerlike creature made of cracked glass and haunting beauty.

Draws enemies close with illusions, then shatters them in splintered reality.

Some say it walks through dreams.

Belief: "You die not knowing what cut you."

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🦂 7th Throne – Veiled Reach | Lady Nyssra

Beast: Sandstalker Scorpion

A golden desert scorpion with translucent venom and a jeweled carapace.

Hides beneath heat mirages. Strikes once. Vanishes twice.

Veilborn messengers often carry one in ceremonial cages—or let it loose in negotiations.

Belief: "The sting that kills is the one you never believe in."

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